Lecture series of formal presentations & course modules
 
c i n e m a     m e d i a     a r t     music
Collapsing Rock, Pop & Noise
Record Production & Phonology
20th Century Music within the Cinema
Contemporary Traces of the Modern Soundtrack
Historical Markers of the Modern Soundtrack

 

Folk, Rock & Pop within the Cinema

1   Days of Wine & Roses   1967 – Blake Edwards (USA)
  Lounge pop   Composer Henry Mancini; inebriation & subjective states; symbolism through musical arrangement
2   Do The Right Thing   1987 – Spike Lee (USA)
  Americana folk   Composer Bill Lee; black landscapes; musicological appropriation; harmonic reclaimation
3   O Brother Where Art Thou?   2000 – Joel & Ethan Coen (USA)
  Blues & bluegrass   Various traditonal songs & recordings; meta-rhythms in folk cycles; race & music technologies; musical anthropology and cinematic mythology
4   The Pawnbroker   1965 – Sidney Lumet (USA)
  Polyglottic jazz   Composer Quincy Jones; the imploded city; musical miscegenation
5   Shaft   1971 – Gordon Parks Jr (USA)
  Funk & soul   Composer Issac Hayes; the city grid and rhythmic patterns; race implications in ‘chase music’; song scoring
6   Wild Angels   1966 – Roger Corman (USA)
  Rock - group   Composer Mike Curb / Davie Allen & the Arrows; primitive electricity; the sound of rock; motor mechanisms
7   Dead Man   1995 – Jim Jarmusch (USA)
  Rock - solo   Composer Neil Young; rebirthing ‘silent cinema’ music; electricity and mystic lore; solo instrumentation and mythic being
8   Rumblefish   1982 – Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
  Art rock   Composer Stewart Copeland; clock time and temporization; percussivity; internal biorhythms
9   Resident Evil   2002 – Paul Anderson (Germany)
  Electronic beats   Composer Marco Baltrami; dissolution of atmosphere; player/user musical dramatics; sonarization of space
10   Patlabor 3   2002 – Fumihiko Takayama (Japan)
  Electronic ambient   Composer Kenji Kawai; liquefied sensations in music; tectonic frequencies; harmonic displacement



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